Mystery in Space #114

The cover of this December 1980 DC anthology is pure Joe Kubert at his visceral best — a line of blue-suited astronauts tumbles helplessly between a launching rocket and a massive, looming dinosaur against a blazing alien landscape, while a spacecraft hovers ominously in the upper atmosphere. The tagline promises a man "hurtled into the distant past" with a chance to give the world a second chance, setting up the kind of grand, pulpy sci-fi stakes that made Mystery in Space a cornerstone of DC's genre publishing. Inside, Carl Wessler and Johnny Craig deliver "Betrayal on Gamma Nova," making this a satisfying package of cosmic adventure for any fan of early 1980s science fiction comics.